Dick Hoyt was a runner who became well known for competing in the Boston Marathon and other races while pushing his son, Rick, in a wheelchair.Rick Hoyt was born a quadriplegic with cerebral palsy, unable to speak or walk.
But when he was a boy, his parents had a computer developed for him that allowed him to communicate by tapping letters with his head.
At 15, in 1977, he asked his father to help him participate in a benefit run for a classmate who had become paralyzed. Hoyt wasn’t a runner, but he ran the race with his son and both discovered a hobby that would become a passion.
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